Jewish teen arrested for US bomb threats 'has tumour'

An Israeli-American teenager accused of making dozens of anti-Semitic bomb threats that led to concern and a backlash in the United States has autism and a brain tumour, his lawyer told a court Thursday. The Israeli court extended the 18-year-old’s remand at the hearing in Rishon Lezion, near Tel Aviv, to April 6 following the Jewish teenager’s arrest in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on March 23.